Category: Birds

Meeting a bald eagle family in Whitehorse

I said in my last post that the next one would be about riding the White Pass & Yukon Route train to Skagway, but I was wrong. The day before than (Saturday, May 16th) I went for a walk at the difficult-to-access southern part of the Whitehorse airport trail...
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The slow advance of Spring…

I always get a bit impatient this time of year – we’re having a lengthy spell of spectacular days, but the nights are still well below freezing (it’s -6°C/+21°F at the moment and I just lit the woodstove), so few plants are in bud yet. There are a few...
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A day of Spring gifts – swans and aurora

Although I’m not nearly finished showing you the Arctic trip, it’s Spring and the weather is wonderful, so there are other things happening that I also want to show you. I probably wouldn’t have posted about our outing to photograph the migrating swans yesterday, but then as I went...
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The swans are back – but only the shy ones so far

Reports on the number of swans now stopped in the Yukon continue to climb, so yesterday I went for a look at four of the best viewing areas. I only got very distant sightings but it was great to be out anyway. The four locations, and the number of...
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Frog hunting in Whitehorse

I know that many of you live in areas where frogs are abundant and seeing and hearing them is no big deal. In the Yukon, though, many people don’t even realize we have frogs here, so when I saw an ad last week that Yukon Wildlife Viewing was having...
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History and swans at Carcross, Yukon

On Monday, April 19th, I got a call from friends asking if I’d like to join them for a swan hunt. I sure would! I’m doing two blog posts about this outing because the Carcross and Tagish parts of it were quite different and each has enough photos to...
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Bald eagle and swans on the Lewes River Trail

I’ve been so busy that I’m now 3 weeks behind on the blog, but there have been some very cool things happening so I’m going to catch up rather than skip a lot. This post is about 2 hikes on what I’m calling the Lewes River Trail, because it...
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Glaciers and marine wildlife in Kenai Fjords

On Wednesday night (August 5th), we settled in at Seward for our first multi-night stay of the trip. We had 2 major activities planned for Seward – a marine wildlife tour and a visit to the Alaska SeaLife Center, and then whatever else might come up. On Thursday morning,...
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